Obama has officially requested $3.7 billion in emergency funds for the border crisis with $1.6 billion going to the DOJ and DHS, $1.8 billion for Health and Human Services and $300 million for the State Department.
Obama caused this crisis and did so intentionally. We have proof that this was a planned event that was prepared for at least as early as this past January. We’ve even had a border agent defy gag orders to expose this as an intended operation.
Now Obama will flood federal agencies with cash in order to beef them up with more personnel, arms and paramilitary units. Very little of this money will be used to actually handle the crisis – these illegals are here to stay.
“Today, I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed emergency supplemental appropriations request. . .to comprehensively address this urgent humanitarian situation,” President Obama said in a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).
The administration’s comprehensive strategy represents a “super-aggressive deterrence and enforcement strategy,” a senior administration official told reporters, speaking on a conference call on condition of anonymity to provide more details.
Breaking down the White House’s $3.7 billion requestThe request also will include an additional $615 million to help the federal government fight wildfires.
Administration officials had previously said that they would be requesting more than $2 billion to help stem the recent surge of women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. More than 52,000 unaccompanied minors and 39,000 women with children have been apprehended on the southern border this year, far more than in past years.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Hate to no I spent my last term ….. a joke
He started it make him pay for it!!!
Let him pay for it out of his own funds that he got from us to start with
If existing laws had been enforced, we would not be confronted with this mess.
He looks like a —- with ears!!!
no
No one has learned the game yet, and he’s really good at it. Syria crisis? He carried a big stick for Russia and Syria to see, let our side bitch and moan, then put the authorize-a-strike ball in our court. Made us look bad while he got Putin to settle things in Obama’s favor. He’s done this again and again. Crimea? Bam. Here we are again. Now if our side doesn’t want to pay for this, we’re going to look bad again. It’s a situation we can’t win. And Texas? A state that keeps saying they have their financial and economic $#%&!@* together and really could successfully secede any time they want? LOL Rick Perry is now crying about the Fed not helping them secure their border. It is no wonder people laugh at us.
Who do call to stop this funding? Like this so we get an answer
I agree, none of this money will show the light of day to immigration or sending them back. I understand people serving these immigrants are getting paid $5000 a week! Need I say more?
NO FUNDING!